Meet Islay, visionary of Woven Wild

I’m a yoga teacher, somatic facilitator, artist and singer-songwriter — but beyond that, I am a woman on a mission to live a life in which I truly come alive, where my voice can be expressed, my heart can love wide open, and I can move through the world creating what I believe in. It is from this place that I support women in cultivating a relationship with themselves that permits them to create lives in which they truly come alive. 

The Woven Wild Origin Story 

Woven Wild is the body of work that I have created after over ten years of study, travel, exploration, healing and personal liberation work. I moved through abusive relationships, emotional chaos, addiction, low self-worth and esteem, chronic pain, nervous system overwhelm and burnout, and the more I peeled back the layers of these symptoms, the more I realized that they all have origins in the culture and context that shaped me. I had been woven by ideas, beliefs, ways of being that I did not necessarily consent to or truly believe in. In my devotion to healing myself I realized that the only way to truly find my way and know how to lead myself was to reconnect with nature — within and around me — as my guide. I had to weave myself wild. 

As I continued to excavate the stories within my own being, I started to notice these patterns over and over again in other women who, like me, were so intelligent, talented, creative, loving and had beautiful visions they longed to birth — yet were  struggling so much to truly see themselves as sacred and inherently worthy. I kept thinking to myself that I needed to create a pathway to teach everything that I had learned to free myself because these symptoms are the result of historical trauma that needs to be loved into dissolution. 

This is how The Woven Wild Method was born. It is a trauma-integrated, intersectional, deeply researched and embodied approach to untangling the threads of history that live in our bodies so that we can access healing, empowerment and liberation — from the roots. 

Training & Education

200h Brain Body Being Facilitator and Somatic Embodiment Practitioner and Coach — Homebody Healing (2025)

130h Trauma-Sensitive Yin Yoga YTT — SoulWork (2021)

65h Trauma-Informed YTT — SoulWork (2021)

50h Yin YTT — Arhanta Yoga (2020)

85h Trauma-Sensitive Prenatal YTT — SoulWork (2020)

200h Trauma-Sensitive Hatha YTT — Passion Yoga School (2019)

B.A. Political Science & International Relations — Algoma University (2018)